Last night’s game saw trends continue, history made and a 3-2 Spurs lead heading into Miami. Also, it only took one sentence to reference Danny Green. We’ll get to more later but the boy deserves his recognition.

You’d figure a pro who got cut three times would stick to playing overseas, wallow in the D League or start a career at Sears. Danny’s evidently not that guy as his 25 threes broke the NBA Finals record for three pointers made in a series. Ray Allen, the previous record holder, recorded 22 threes in a seven game series. Danny Green dropped 26 threes in FIVE GAMES on 67% shooting from downtown. He’s also made big defensive plays along throughout the postseason so he’s not some one-trick pony from the arch.

Most of the looks Danny Green received came from poor rotations on Miami’s end and Green’s assignment getting caught under screens. San Antonio’s ball movement has been great about finding Danny and Gary Neal for open treys. Charles Barkley always said ball rotation provided one of the best ways to beat Miami. We’ve seen the theory in practice three times already. This is where I refrain from jinxing them.

Oh, and how about Manu Ginobili? Maybe his playoff clock alarm finally went off or Pop starting him shot up his confidence. We saw the Manu of old and rare form: flipping up shots towards 24 points, creating for teammates with 10 dimes and just being a general nuisance for the opposition.

San Antonio had their best win of the series last night. Game 1 gave us a dramatic result and Game 3 made everyone outside Souf Beach cry laughing. Game 5 finally saw shades of the well-balanced Spurs team we’ve previously seen in the playoffs. Every starter dropped 16 points or better and shot over 50%. Their bench sucked and gave Miami multiple avenues for their runs.

NorBel, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen tried to get their club back into striking distance but, once again, everyone else became inept. Erik Spoelstra’s decision to start Mike Miller again yielded absolutely nothing once more and Mario Chalmers shot like he hated the bottom of the net. Tinsley hated it like “Men on Film” hate Nightcaps but the rest of the Crew didn’t mind.

We’ve seen this song and dance before. The Spurs are up with a two game cushion but Miami built a reputation of coming back huge after losses. The first team who loses back-to-back will wear the biggest L for the off-season. Tune in Tuesday night for Game 6 in Miami. The word from Chris Broussard’s sauces suggests David Stern may attend the match with a wireless Buffalo Wild Wings button.

at this point maybe. BUT don’t forget Parker is only 2 points behind green in scoring avg for the finals and is ahead in assists. also, dont sleep on Duncan either, he is only 3 points behind Green’s average in points and he is averaging over 10 boards a game. Whats all this mean? Simple, it means that is parker or duncan go off in one of the next 2 for like 30 points and the spurs manage to win that that player wins mvp bc their stats (and most likely impact) will be above all others. Green can still get it tho but i think he needs to be consistent. No more game 4 nine points from him, just keep it above 20 and Danny might actually pull this off.

Also, don’t sleep on lebron completely either. The spurs still have a game left to win out of 2 and if somehow MIA wins both i’d imagine its going to NorBel…

“Like every year, once the finals conclude, all injuries will be lifted for all teams.” From Chris Manning’s twitter. He should stay IA though since he won’t play while Heat’s big three is still intact

1) Danny Green, Finals MVP
2) I would hope all those people sucking off Miami and calling one of the all time greatest team during the reg season are well over that. I’m surprised that people could actually enjoy this on-off bullshit they pull all the time.
3) If Spurs win the series, I want TMac to be the 1st person interviewed post-game and the 1st person to speak at the parade
4) If the Spurs win game 6, we will hit 1000 comments. Even if it ends up simply being me spamming Lebron failing gifs

As much as I hate the Heat & all they stand for I wouldn’t mind seeing this go to a Game 7 to stretch the basketball season out cause as much as I love baseball it really hasn’t peaked my interest so far this year! Perhaps it’s cause my White Sox are doing so bad or something else like my focus being on basketball lately, but it really hasn’t interested me much so far & that’s even with my other favorite team, the Reds doing as well as they have been doing too!